Default permissions

Colin Watson wrote:

>Rather than making it actively difficult for users on the same system
>(who, as I explained, will often be associated with each other and have
>useful information to share with each other) to share files, I'd much
>rather see increased UI prominence for permissions on files, so that
>it's obvious when a file is world-readable and obvious how to hide its
>contents.
>  
>
Isn't a part of the problem that there is no an easy way to share files 
between the different users on a ubuntu  system?

As you stated, on many systems the different users corresponds to 
various family members. Yet if you want to share your music with 
everybody in the family you you have to point them to your home 
directory  or create a common directory with o:rw and make sure that all 
users belong to the same  group?

So I think ubuntu should make sharing easier.  Just as every file dialog 
has a home-icon, it should also have a pointer to a shared directory.

Martin Ericsson